Employment – Political discrimination – Free speech – Retaliation

Where the plaintiff, a former purchasing officer for a Puerto Rico municipality, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the municipality, its mayor and the mayor’s assistant, claiming he had been let go from work because of his political party membership and his exercise of free speech rights, an order granting the defendants summary judgment must be vacated as to claims of on the political discrimination and free speech retaliation.